Re: Making pictures

caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
>> Living as I do in Atlanta, I have only occasional contact with the
>> real South,  and even growing up 100 miles souther I was in a
>> military town that was therefore similarly cosmopolitan.
>> Nevertheless, picture day at school yielded a lot of talk about
>> having pictures "made". There was a definite connotation
>> difference.  Having your picture "made" involved professional
>> photographers and dressing up and such; having your picture "taken"
>> could just as easily refer to a snapshot. These days I consider
>> the "made" use somewhat quaint, associated with mint juleps and
>> verandas and suchlike. :)
>
> That sparked a memory from my childhood in school in Norfolk, VA.
> But the phrase was always "have made," as quoted above.  "We're
> having our pictures made."
>
> But I don't remember ever using or hearing an active construction
> such as "He's making our picture."
>
> Charlie
>
Chattanooga, TN, must be in the real South, then, because I still hear
this phrase all the time. :p

Like in both other posts, we always use the phrase "have your pictures
made", and it usually refers to a picture that involves posing, like at
a wedding reception, or at the mall with Santa, or for a school yearbook.

We don't always use "have made" in reference to professionals, though. I
might say that I "had a picture made" with some of my cousins last year,
if only because all six of us were in the picture, standing as in a
class portrait.

--
Michael Potter
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<http://www.potterpcs.net/gsfa>

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